Waldemar Pawlak

Waldemar Pawlak [valˈdɛmar ˈpavlak] (listen) (born 5 September 1959) is a Polish politician. He was Prime Minister of Poland twice, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. From November 2007 to November 2012 he was Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy.

Waldemar Pawlak
4th and 6th Prime Minister of Poland
In office 26 October 1993 – 6 March 1995
President	Lech Wałęsa
Deputy	Aleksander Łuczak Marek Borowski Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Preceded by	Hanna Suchocka
Succeeded by	Józef Oleksy
In office 5 June 1992 – 10 July 1992
President	Lech Wałęsa
Preceded by	Jan Olszewski
Succeeded by	Hanna Suchocka
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office 16 November 2007 – 27 November 2012
President	Lech Kaczyński Bronisław Komorowski (Acting) Bogdan Borusewicz (Acting) Grzegorz Schetyna (Acting) Bronisław Komorowski
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Succeeded by	Janusz Piechociński
Minister of Economy of Poland
In office 16 November 2007 – 27 November 2012
President	Lech Kaczyński Bronisław Komorowski (Acting) Bogdan Borusewicz (Acting) Grzegorz Schetyna (Acting) Bronisław Komorowski
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Deputy	Adam Szejnfeld
Preceded by	Piotr Woźniak
Succeeded by	Janusz Piechociński
President of the Polish People's Party
In office 29 January 2005 – 17 November 2012
Preceded by	Janusz Wojciechowski
Succeeded by	Janusz Piechociński
In office 29 June 1991 – 11 October 1997
Preceded by	Roman Bartoszcze
Succeeded by	Jarosław Kalinowski
Member of the Sejm
In office 18 June 1989 – 11 November 2015
Constituency	16 – Płock
Personal details
Born	(1959-09-05) 5 September 1959 Model, Masovian Voivodeship, People's Republic of Poland
Political party	Polish People's Party
Spouse(s)	Elżbieta Pawlak
Profession	Mechanician, farmer, teacher
Awards

Other websites

• Waldemar Pawlak's blog Archived 2007-03-13 at the Wayback Machine